GUSN-222582
Buttonhook with an ivory handle with palm leaves and trees etched on it. There is a seperate carving that makes the handle look like it is being covered with a large palm tree leaf. Th metal for the hook is long and tapered and ends in a curved hook.
buttonhooks
ivory (tooth component)
metal
Buttonhook
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
14/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2695
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